28 août 1963 - March on Washington (Aug 28, 1963)
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I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history.Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington. The one-day event both protested racial discrimination and encouraged the passage of civil rights legislation; at the time, the Civil Rights Act was being discussed in Congress (Tikkanen, n.page).
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Tikkanen, A. (2024, February 23). I Have a Dream | Date, quotations, & facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/I-Have-A-Dream
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Date:
28 août 1963
Maintenaint
~ Il y a 61 ans